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To: carranza2 who wrote (22863)	8/19/2002 5:50:07 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

city of 10 million, does not have a single operating traffic light You're building my case for re-colonization. The Nigerian man in the street would love anything that worked. Independence form England was just a goal of a caste of bureaucrats the British had to put in place to run the country. They make 40 million dollar a day with oil exports and can't put a traffic light.

To: carranza2 who wrote (22863)	8/19/2002 6:58:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<Lagos, a city of 10 million, does not have a single operating traffic light. > That's not necessarily a bad thing - the idiotic traffic engineers here are using traffic lights to stop traffic flowing, not keep it moving. At some stage, people will rebel against the mindless machine ruling their lives, suffocating them, stopping them at every turn with rules, regulations, permits, licences, restrictions, bans and other bureaucratic busybodying bossiness. Authoritarians are born every day. Are there any cars in Lagos? If everyone's walking or on bicycles [or even most] a traffic light isn't necessarily a good thing. Mqurice